There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.

Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.

Part of why we remain here is that most people don't interact with the actual criminal punishment system, they are stuck in Law & Order land and fantasy land.

Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump threatened.

"We also need to address the dehumanization that persists in every single aspect of American life... that has sent us down the path in which Trump can threaten to annihilate a civilization & we find ourselves with few answers about how to stop it."
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Photo Of The Day: Israel Escalates Offensive In Lebanon Photo Of The Day: Israel Escalates Offensive In Lebanon

At least seven people were reportedly killed and 24 wounded in two Israeli ‌strikes in the Beirut area.

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

"This [legal jailbreak] was an astonishing confirmation, not only of the captives' long-standing indictment against the state for conspiring to keep them locked up, but also of the legitimacy of their rebellion and their use of political violence."

TIL in 1970, incarcerated insurgents who had taken over Branch Queens forced three New York Supreme Court judges to hold bail hearings in the jail. These hearings resulted in thirteen captives being released within a few hours. Source: TIP OF THE SPEAR by Orisanmi Burton

To analogize the Al information-collapse scenario: It's like if the modern information economy was a bee farm, where journalists are the honeybees. (We do sting people from time to time). Information is honey, and society loves honey! You don't even need to meet a bee to eat it. But making honey is so slow... Then a new Al-powered robot arrives that makes it a lot cheaper and faster to get the honey to consumers — by driving over the flowers, smashing open the beehive and killing all the bees in the process. There's no more honey to collect next time, and the robot is left to scrape up whatever is left in the debris. One day you get to the grocery store, and crud is the only thing on the shelves. Suddenly dinner is less appetizing but you don't know why. Oh, and society has gotten addicted to riding around on the bee-smashing machine.

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse:

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. Banksy wall art graffiti meme pic

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:

These protests are important b/c:

1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Collecting ideas for how to interrupt a string of bad weeks.

When the New Neighbor Arrived, They Were Excited. It Turned Into a Seven-Year Nightmare That Had Liberals Losing Their Minds. The seven-year war between the bookstore owner and the good liberals who went rogue.

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Donald Trump’s “Whenever Wars” The administration is drawing from an earlier, cruder era of U.S. imperialism to assert Washington’s unrestrained, unaccountable power.

"Trump is explicitly blurring the lines between domestic and foreign policy, with racism, Christian nationalism, Islamophobia, and Western chauvinism as the connective tissue."

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Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence The bill is one of the harshest bills criminalizing trans people in the nation, and it will now move to the Senate.

"States like Florida, Kansas and Texas are now pursuing the full-scale criminalization of transgender adults using bathrooms in public buildings, each enacting more extreme enforcement mechanisms than the last."

www.erininthemorning.com/p/idaho-hous...

"Most recent studies on the subject have found that prisoners in their 50s start showing signs of deteriorating health that those outside prison don’t see until significantly later"

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How States Are Grappling With an Aging Prison Population Research shows people often “age out” of crime, and health care costs are ballooning. But still, many states oppose releasing elderly prisoners.

"'They say it’s rehabilitation,' Gene Anthes, an Austin attorney, told the Chronicle. 'But that’s bull. It’s an opportunity to lock them up and throw away the key.'"

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/21/o...

Most people aren't in fact 'doing their own research'.

If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66

More important is this strange habit of taking advantage of the argument that big tech's labor exploitation practices aren't going to have an individualistic solution as an excuse to knowingly become a consumer of a company actively traumatizing people.

Reading a commentary on incorporating genAI into scholarly practice that includes two sentences on the exploitation of people in Kenya, the Philippines, and elsewhere in the global south only to brush it off because "how cool," "so productive."

Young activists reimagine care for children of incarcerated parents Activists are calling on Oregon lawmakers to expand protections via the Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents.

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It seems the phrase should be “men’s club talk” instead of “locker room talk”

“The conversation was like being in a men’s club, you know.It was really offensive. They didn’t notice me.”The men at that table used the same words to describe women’s bodies that are much repeated in the #Epstein files”

crime =/= harm - which is why it only matters politically if the *crime* rate is high because it is actively weaponized.

My personal hell will just be an automated phone menu directing me to other automated phone menus.

'I Lied To You' From SINNERS Live at the 98th Oscars YouTube video by ABC

if ya missed it...#Oscars

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Season 3 of Veronica Mars is deeply annoying. Why are the militant feminists staging fake rapes? Make it make sense.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “No abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet. We’re not about cost-savings.“ Saving lives, not saving money.

I finished all of my work with immediate deadlines by noon on a Wednesday this week. To celebrate, I'm doing my work with far-reaching deadlines.